Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng discovered Xiang Tiange training alone in the Battle Realm while Feng Sen and Old Book opened its sealed entrance from outside. Xiang Tiange escaped and claimed the other survivors had been killed, leaving Shao Yue troubled by his account.

• Lu Feng bypassed Xiang Tiange’s arrays and watched him destroy a training figure and kill a Two-Eared Macaque before following him toward the Battle Realm entrance.
• Feng Sen used his Awakened Dragon Staff to break the Seven Sealing Chime Array with thirteen strikes, reopening the Battle Realm entrance.
• Xiang Tiange escaped through the opening just before Old Book entered the Battle Realm, then told Heaven’s Wrath that the Blood Clan had killed or sacrificed the other survivors.
• Heaven’s Wrath told Xiang Tiange that Shao Yang had escaped through the Eastern Ping Spirit Prison exit, and Xiang Tiange left to report back to his group instructor.
• Shao Yue recognized Xiang Tiange’s name and felt uneasy as he departed.

Lu Feng returned safely from the Battle Realm with his cultivation restored, though his altered meridians left his right leg injured and his Soul Plate unable to hold more Five Elements Qi. After Ye Fan revealed the Nine Dragons Cauldron’s secrets and Old Book explained Medicine Valley’s restrictions on its finger techniques, Lu Feng remained in the Spirit Prison with new mysteries surrounding his power and Ye Fan’s past.

• Old Book found Lu Feng in the Battle Realm, learned that Lu Feng had recovered to the Five Elements One Qi Realm, and brought him back to the Spirit Prison.
• Shao Yue thanked Lu Feng for saving Shao Yang, then asked to return home and check on her brother after Lu Feng offered to examine his lost cultivation.
• Ye Fan learned that Lu Feng had seen a black cauldron in the Battle Realm and received its patterns and memories through Lu Feng’s Soul Power.
• Old Book recognized the Soul Refining Cauldron, and Ye Fan explained that it was one of the Nine Dragons Cauldron and recorded the Soul Extinction Finger, also called the Gathering Threads Finger.
• Ye Fan disclosed that he had belonged to Medicine Valley and left to search for treatments, while Old Book explained how Medicine Valley limited access to its finger techniques.

Lu Feng told Old Book about the Blood Clan’s attempt to refine a demon soul and learned that it might have been preparing a Saint Soul Realm expert, while the human soulmasters lacked anyone with similar potential. After recovering and reuniting with Tang Yuan, Lu Feng prepared to help him strengthen himself and accepted an invitation to an array exchange conference, then heard that Jun Ziyi had been challenging other academies to sword duels.

• Old Book explained Medicine Valley’s Danxin Finger and Lingxin Finger, then listened as Lu Feng recounted the events surrounding the Blood Clan and the demon soul.
• Old Book suspected the Blood Clan had sought the demon soul to help a Half-Step Saint Soul Realm expert advance, and Lu Feng wondered why the Purple Eyes in his soul sea had suppressed it.
• Old Book gave Lu Feng the Black Tortoise Core and Profound Yin Tortoise Core, which Lu Feng fused in the Six Paths Domain for Tang Yuan to refine.
• Tang Yuan returned to the Spirit Prison, and Lu Feng told him about the Blood Clan threat and the fused beast core.
• Qiao Xuan delivered Lu Feng an invitation to the array exchange conference in White Cloud City, and Lu Feng said he would go after arranging the academy’s affairs.
• Tang Yuan told Lu Feng that Jun Ziyi had been challenging people at other academies to sword duels because her swordsmanship had reached a bottleneck.

Lu Feng assessed his students’ progress, gave Ning Xiang a palm technique and Qian Xin a formation diagram, and learned why Jun Ziyi had lost several sword duels. He concluded that Jun Ziyi needed to change how she trained and focus on more than cultivation.

• Tang Yuan told Lu Feng that their group had lost several matches but gained fame, and he hoped refining a beast core would help them reach the Eastern Origin Rankings’ top ten.
• Lu Feng found Ning Xiang had reached the Spirit Gathering Realm and Qian Xin was progressing in formation carving, while Jun Ziyi had reached the middle stage of the Core Formation Realm.
• Lu Feng gave Ning Xiang the Ant Soft Palm and gave Qian Xin a Nine Turns White Banners Array diagram, sending her to exchange spiritual merits for formation supplies and inviting her to White Cloud City.
• Jun Ziyi told Lu Feng she had lost two close sword duels because her opponents’ swordsmanship surpassed hers, and she demonstrated the flaw in her sword-form transition.
• Lu Feng identified Jun Ziyi’s weak transitions and poor endurance, then told her to change her cultivation routine and stop focusing only on improving her cultivation.

Lu Feng arranged training for Jun Ziyi and the others, strengthened the academy’s array, and crafted two array discs, exhausting most of his Soul Power. Late that night, Bai Bing and Bai Xue visited him; after Bai Bing gave him Water Foam Ice Jade in thanks for saving her sister, she said it was time to settle their accounts.

• Lu Feng prescribed daily runs and combat practice for his students, and advised Jun Ziyi to study Feng Fanqing’s experiences and challenge the Martial Hall’s battle puppets.
• Lu Feng reinforced the academy’s array, while Ruo Shui told him the Silver Moon Demon Bear, Little Silver, was nearing the seventh rank.
• Lu Feng condensed a Trapped Lion Exhaustion Array into a disc stone and then spent seventy percent of his Soul Power making a Sky Void Binding Spirit Array disc.
• Bai Bing and Bai Xue arrived at Lu Feng’s door late at night, and Bai Bing gave him Water Foam Ice Jade as thanks for saving Bai Xue.
• After Lu Feng accepted the jade, Bai Bing declared that the favor was repaid and it was time to settle their accounts.

Lu Feng refused to return the Silver Moon Demon Bear cub, prepared for the White Cloud City trip, and sensed a trace of Jiang Ruoyun’s aura while recovering his soul power. He left Spirit Prison with Qian Xin for White Cloud City, but paused at a fork in the road and gazed toward Tian Yuan City.

• Bai Xue and Bai Bing asked Lu Feng to return the Silver Moon Demon Bear cub, but he refused when it came to him and showed its attachment to him.
• Bai Bing told Lu Feng that a secret realm had appeared near White Cloud City and asked to travel with him to gain a companion’s place in the expedition.
• A young woman watched Lu Feng from a neighboring roof but chose not to meet him, saying she believed in him and was at peace as long as he was safe.
• Lu Feng sensed a trace of Jiang Ruoyun’s aura, then used Spirit Source Liquid to recover his soul power through the night.
• Lu Feng made more high-grade array plates and improved the academy’s training system with Ye Fan before leaving Spirit Prison with Qian Xin for White Cloud City.
• At Maple Forest Ferry, Lu Feng paused at the fork in the road and stared toward Tian Yuan City, puzzling Qian Xin.

Lu Feng confronted Zhao Quansong, who attacked him over a mistaken belief that he was pursuing Bai Xue. Lu Feng trapped Zhao Quansong in an improved formation array and had Qian Xin prepare the Nine Turns White Banners Array, leaving Zhao Quansong exhausted but still trapped.

• Lu Feng decided to visit Tian Yuan City after matters in White Cloud City were settled, worried about Ma Qiufeng’s investigation and safety.
• Zhao Quansong attacked Lu Feng, accusing him of pursuing White Snow Instructor, while Qian Xin urged Lu Feng to flee.
• Lu Feng told Qian Xin to use the Nine Turns White Banners Array against Zhao Quansong and assured her that he could not touch her.
• As Qian Xin began setting up the array, Lu Feng blocked Zhao Quansong’s attacks with an improved Eight Locks Ghost Gate Array.
• Zhao Quansong exhausted much of his spiritual energy attacking the array, then sat down to recover while Lu Feng remained confident he would stay trapped.

Lu Feng and Qian Xin reinforced a White Banner Array while Zhao Quansong recovered, but his Thunder Fire Pearls destroyed the formation. Lu Feng used Water Foam Ice Jade to shield himself and Qian Xin, and the Heavenly Starburst Array counterattack left Zhao Quansong badly injured before he fled; Bai Bing then explained the rarity of the pearls.

• Bai Bing watched Lu Feng and Zhao Quansong from hiding, angry that Lu Feng had not called for her.
• Lu Feng directed Qian Xin to build a White Banner Array and reinforce its array eyes with Heavenly Starburst Arrays.
• Zhao Quansong charged with two Thunder Fire Pearls, so Lu Feng withdrew the Eight Locks Ghost Gate Array and used a Trapped Lion Exhaustion Array to buy Qian Xin time.
• Zhao Quansong hurled the Thunder Fire Pearls, and Lu Feng used Water Foam Ice Jade to shield himself and Qian Xin from the explosion.
• The Heavenly Starburst Array turned the blast into a fire-dragon counterattack; Bai Bing blocked most of it, but Zhao Quansong was injured and fled.
• Bai Bing told Lu Feng that Thunder Fire Pearls were rare and that Zhao Quansong had likely used his entire supply.

Lu Feng realized Senior Bai Jing’s White Banner Array was designed to grow through nested arrays, potentially gaining enough force to slay Earth Soul Realm soulmasters. After reaching White Cloud City, he and Bai Bing and Qian Xin went to find Shao Yue, only to learn her family had returned to their farmhouse in the outskirts.

• Bai Bing explained the Thunder Fire Pearl’s rarity and why Zhao Quansong had possessed several, while Lu Feng agreed to accompany her to the secret realm.
• Lu Feng explained how the Thunder Fire Pearl’s force had rebounded through the White Banner Array and injured Zhao Quansong.
• Bai Bing’s remark about abandoning balance helped Lu Feng realize the original White Banner Array’s array eyes could hold nested arrays and create immense suppressive force.
• Lu Feng and Qian Xin deduced that placing a 108-flag White Banner Array at each of the original array’s eighteen array eyes could create a vast, potentially earth-grade or stronger array.
• The three arrived in White Cloud City and chose to visit Shao Yue and her brother before the Array Association Exchange Meeting.
• A guard told Lu Feng, Bai Bing, and Qian Xin that Shao Yue’s family had moved back to their farmhouse on the western outskirts, so they set out to find her.

Shao Tianyi attacked Shao Yue and her parents to force Shao Yang to appear, but Lu Feng arrived and used his Bewitching Eye Technique to make Shao Tianyi kneel and apologize to Shao Yue. Shao Feiyi then challenged Bai Bing, and Shao Yue warned that he could use a secret technique to raise his cultivation at a serious cost.

• Zhou Guan sent Shao Feiyi to the western outskirts after learning that Shao Tianyi might be in trouble.
• Shao Tianyi and his retainers threatened Shao Yue and her parents, and one retainer struck Shao Yue when she refused to reveal Shao Yang's whereabouts.
• Lu Feng shot the retainer through the wrist, then used his Bewitching Eye Technique to make Shao Tianyi kneel and apologize to Shao Yue.
• Shao Feiyi arrived and broke Lu Feng's control over Shao Tianyi, who ordered him to kill Lu Feng and the others.
• Bai Bing fought Shao Feiyi, while Shao Yue told Lu Feng that the Shao Family secret technique could raise Shao Feiyi's cultivation but leave him weakened and risk demonic deviation.

Bai Bing fought Shao Feiyi, whose saber shattered under the chill of her White Lotus Swordplay, until he unleashed his secret art and Lu Feng intervened with a high-rank array plate. After the Shao family men left, Lu Feng discussed movement and stillness with Bai Bing, who began to understand how calmness of mind could refine her swordsmanship.

• Bai Bing used the White Lotus Swordplay to battle Shao Feiyi, and her icy sword intent gradually weakened his saber until it shattered.
• Shao Tianyi threw a concealed weapon at Bai Bing, prompting Shao Feiyi to unleash his secret art and attack her with a palm blade.
• Bai Bing deflected the concealed weapon and forced Shao Feiyi to protect Shao Tianyi, while Lu Feng arrived with a seventh-rank array plate and ordered the Shao family to leave.
• Shao Feiyi retreated with Shao Tianyi, and Bai Bing told Lu Feng that her injuries would heal after a few days of rest.
• Lu Feng recognized the movement-and-stillness principles in Bai Bing's swordplay and explained that sustained Stillness of Mind could help her control those transitions.

Lu Feng accompanied Shao Yue to Old Street to find her estranged brother, Shao Yang, and encountered a strange tavern whose elderly owner challenged him to drink Untainted by Dust. Lu Feng passed out after finishing the gourd, and the owner said he might remain drunk for ten days to half a month without revealing where Shao Yang had gone.

• Lu Feng gave Shao Yue's parents a jade talisman and urged Shao Yue to grow strong enough to protect her family.
• Shao Yue told Qian Xin that her brother Shao Yang had never recovered after his cultivation was crippled and had withdrawn into drinking.
• Lu Feng accompanied Shao Yue and Qian Xin to a rundown tavern on Old Street to ask its old shopkeeper where Shao Yang had gone.
• The old shopkeeper offered to reveal Shao Yang's whereabouts if Lu Feng drank a gourd of Untainted by Dust, then made the wine free.
• Lu Feng drank the entire gourd, became unconscious, and the old shopkeeper said the wine could keep him drunk for ten days to half a month.

Lu Feng overcame Untainted by Dust, perfected his Innate Crippling Leg, and found Shao Yang in despair after losing his strength and being rejected by Lei Qiqi. When Xiang Tiange attacked Shao Yang, Lu Feng’s group rescued him and began preparing to suppress the Blood Array inside him.

• Lu Feng awakened from Untainted by Dust, perfected his Innate Crippling Leg, and learned from the Old Man that Shao Yang was behind the tavern.
• Lu Feng and the others found Shao Yang drinking by the river, where Shao Yue pleaded with him to recover and Lu Feng urged him to stand up again.
• Lu Feng kicked Shao Yang into the water after sensing someone nearby, drawing Xiang Tiange out of hiding.
• Xiang Tiange taunted and repeatedly forced Shao Yang underwater, but Bai Bing pulled Shao Yang to shore after Xiang Tiange fled.
• Lu Feng examined Shao Yang and warned that the Blood Array had spread through his body, then set up a Spirit Communication Array to suppress it.

Lu Feng treated Shao Yang and removed the Blood Array, while Bai Bing found a brewing manual that Lu Feng discovered contained recipes for spirit brews. After Shao Yang recovered, Lu Feng and Qian Xin headed to the Array Association Exchange Meeting in White Cloud City, where Lu Feng presented his badge at the entrance.

• Bai Bing found a brewing book left by the tavern Old Man, and Lu Feng later discovered that most of its recipes described spirit brews.
• Lu Feng used a Spirit Communication Array and Medicinal Liquids to weaken the Blood Array afflicting Shao Yang and help him endure the treatment.
• After Shao Yang recovered overnight, Lu Feng removed the Blood Array, but Shao Yang refused Shao Yue's request to join Lu Feng's group.
• Lu Feng told Shao Yang he could seek him out at the academy if he let go of his pride, and Shao Yang agreed to return home with Shao Yue.
• When Bai Bing failed to return by noon, Lu Feng and Qian Xin left for the Array Association Exchange Meeting in White Cloud City.
• At the entrance, Lu Feng showed his third-grade Azure Sky Array Association badge, and the attendant asked Qian Xin to present his badge.

Lu Feng arrived at the Array Association Exchange Meeting and learned that the Azure Sky Array Association was struggling in the practical exchanges. As the beast-array round neared completion, he recognized Guan Hongzi’s unusual fire-enhancing array and learned it was designed to control a sleeping Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger.

• Qiao Mumu escorted Lu Feng and Qian Xin into the grounds and explained the six associations’ specialties and the Azure Sky Array Association’s poor results so far.
• Lan Yin introduced Lu Feng to President Lan Ting, while Guan Songzi belittled Lu Feng’s Chakra Realm strength and array-setting ability.
• Lan Ting asked Lu Feng to assess Guan Hongzi’s unfinished beast array, and Lu Feng identified it as a high-grade fire-element auxiliary array intended to aid a beast sensitive to Fire Essence Qi.
• Lu Feng questioned how Guan Hongzi could control an eighth-grade Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger, and Lan Yin explained that the beast was asleep and could be handled safely.

At the beast array exchange, Qian Yichen tried to break Qu Lietang’s Scorpion Inch Light Array, while Lu Feng recognized that its apparent weakness concealed a layered trap. Qian Yichen was struck by the array’s hidden silver-white snake, revealing the purpose of its Worry Lock patterns.

• Guan Hongzi completed an array on a huge iron chest that radiated terrifying Beast Qi as the exchange began.
• Qing Shaoyang, Xu Gongyu, and Wang Anyin discussed the Scorpion Inch Light Array, and Qian Yichen entered it to break it by force.
• Qian Yichen shattered the array’s red restraining circles and attacked the Crimson Winged Scorpion, while Lu Feng warned that Qu Lietang must have prepared a backup plan.
• Lu Feng spotted Worry Lock patterns among the broken red marks, and Lan Yin and Qiao Xuan realized they could disrupt Qian Yichen’s attention.
• Qian Yichen blocked the Worry Lock’s red ropes but was distracted when the hidden silver-white snake fired a blade-like ray into his left shoulder.

Qian Yichen was badly injured when Qu Lietang’s beast array unleashed its scorpion’s severed tail, but he insisted on continuing the exchange and led the other array masters into his hidden Bright Sound Bewildering Heart Array. Wang Anyin emerged from its white mist confused and in pain, and Lan Ting and Lan Yin recognized the signs of a Bright Sound Flying Ant attack.

• Qu Lietang ordered the Crimson Winged Scorpion to sever its tail, and Qian Yichen used his Nether Sky Shield to block the strike before the impact flung him from the array with severe injuries.
• Qian Yichen persuaded the elder to let him remain in the exchange, and Jiang Douyu announced that Huang Yi Array Association had given the best performance in the first round.
• Qian Yichen requested that the gathering inspect his concealed array before Guan Hongzi’s Azure Flame Gathering Fire Array, and Guan Hongzi reinforced his own array while they waited.
• Qing Shaoyang, Xu Gongyu, Guan Hongzi, Wang Anyin, and Qu Lietang entered Qian Yichen’s Bright Sound Bewildering Heart Array together after he challenged them to test it.
• Wang Anyin ran out of the array’s white mist confused and in pain, and Lan Ting and Lan Yin recognized that Bright Sound Flying Ants had attacked him.

After the Bright Sound Bewildering Heart Array trapped Guan Hongzi and left several array masters injured, Lu Feng offered to break it from outside with his Netherworld Bow. As the others waited and Qian Yichen mocked him, Lu Feng found the target he had been seeking.

• Lan Ting ordered the rescue of Wang Anyin, while Qian Yichen mocked the Du Jing Array Association as its members withdrew.
• Qing Shaoyang and Qu Lietang emerged from the array injured, and the Bright Sound Bewildering Heart Array became visible after Xu Gongyu escaped using the Eagle's Cry Nine Ravines technique.
• Xu Gongyu explained that Guan Hongzi remained trapped, and Guan Songzi begged Lan Yin and Lan Ting to save his father.
• Lan Ting and Lan Yin prepared to enter the array, but Qian Yichen revealed that he had broken the array talisman and could no longer control the formation.
• Lu Feng stopped the presidents and offered to break the array from outside with his Netherworld Bow; Qiao Xuan persuaded them to let him try.
• Lu Feng drew a Jade Arrow as Guan Songzi angrily urged him to hurry, then turned on him and announced that he had found his target.

Lu Feng used a powerful arrow to kill the Bright Sound Ant Queen, break the Bright Sound Bewildering Heart Array, and save Guan Hongzi. The Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger then escaped its unstable array and charged at Lu Feng, who stopped its attack and damaged the crystals on its front claws.

• Lu Feng shot the Bright Sound Ant Queen with the Jade Arrow, causing the Bright Sound Flying Ants to scatter and freeing Guan Hongzi from the array.
• Lan Yin treated Guan Hongzi, and Guan Songzi thanked Lu Feng and gave up pursuing Qiao Mumu after Lu Feng told him his heart belonged to someone else.
• Lu Feng explained that killing the Bright Sound Ant Queen had disrupted the array, and Lan Yin realized Lu Feng had slain it with one arrow.
• The Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger awakened inside Guan Hongzi's masterless auxiliary array, grew stronger as its claw crystals absorbed Fire Essence Qi, and broke free before the array masters could restrain it.
• The Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger charged toward Lu Feng and the people behind him, but Lu Feng faced it with Laughing Cang Hai and struck its raised front claws, cracking both crystals.

Lu Feng subdued the Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger, then rushed to Shao Yue’s family home after receiving her distress signal. He drove off Lei Jian and promised to break Shao Yue’s engagement the next day, while her family prepared to leave for Azure Dragon Town.

• Lu Feng struck the Flame Crystal Hunter Blast Tiger’s flesh crystals and subdued it, while Qian Xin and Qiao Mumu escaped harm.
• Lu Feng sensed Shao Yue was in danger and hurried with Bai Bing to her family’s home.
• Lei Jian threatened Shao Yue and her family over her arranged marriage, but Lu Feng defeated him and his attendants.
• Lu Feng promised to take Shao Yue to the Lei Family the next day to break off her engagement.
• Lu Feng gave Shao Yang the deed to Water Bamboo Pavilion and soul coins so he could escort Shao Yue’s parents to Azure Dragon Town.
• Bai Bing warned Lu Feng about the Lei Family’s strength, and Lu Feng asked whether she would help him.